Kissimmee Utility Authority today announced the winners of its 16th annual student calendar art contest.

Open to Osceola County students in kindergarten through fifth grade, the contest is designed to promote energy conservation.

This year, a total of 1,327 entries were received from 21 Osceola County elementary schools, including public, private and charter schools. KUA also received entries from nearly three dozen homeschooled students.

Lenny Henry, Rachel Weisz and Juliet Stevenson are among the actors vying for a prestigious Evening Standard Theatre Award, at the ceremony which celebrates the cream of the London stage.

PPL Electric Utilities announced a project Friday to improve electric service for customers throughout the Susquehanna Valley.

A subsidiary of CenterPoint Energy Inc. and NextEra US Gas Assets LLC, an affiliate of FPL Group Inc.

British oil explorer Heritage Oil is in talks to sell its Ugandan assets to Italian oil group Eni SpA for between $1.3-1.5 billion, a person familiar with the matter said today.

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Pat Farnelli says there's something in the water at her house. The last time she drank it, she says, she vomited four times.

People using mobile phones walk by a securities firm's electronic board indicating global stock prices in Tokyo.

The only art fair in the United States featuring works exclusively from Latin American artists is under way in New York and drawing artists, collectors and museum representatives from around the world to the PINTA art fair.

A spacewalking astronaut put aside the impending birth of his daughter and blazed through his first-ever venture outside the International Space Station on Saturday.

The Obama administration has delayed a decision on a request by Shell Oil Co. to drill for oil and gas in Alaska's rugged Chukchi Sea.

Consumer advocates say they're encouraged by state regulators' decision to allow Indiana utilities to reinstate heating assistance programs for the needy, but the next step is up to the utilities.

The owners of a Lexington ethanol plant and their insurer are suing a subsidiary of a Houston-based natural gas provider they say is responsible for an explosion and fire that shut down the plant for weeks.

Nissan unveiled its Leaf electric vehicle today at San Diego Gas & Electric's Kearny Mesa headquarters.

Ontario Power Generation Inc. had a $259-million profit in its latest quarter, although the provincial Crown corporation continued to feel the impact of reduced demand for electricity.

The Texas Supreme Court on Friday said it will again hear arguments in the nearly 15-year legal battle over accusations that Exxon Mobil Corp.

DIMOCK, Pa. -- More than a dozen families have filed suit against one of the nation's largest natural gas drillers after the company polluted their water wells in northeastern Pennsylvania.

Refineries from New Mexico to New Jersey are under severe economic pressure because of falling demand for fuel, with a number of facilities shutting down in recent months.

WOODSIDE Petroleum says costs on its Pluto liquefied natural gas project off Western Australia have blown out by up to $1 billion.

Tennessee Valley Authority's top executives were told Thursday during a meeting in Kentucky not to expect performance bonuses this year because of a drop in electricity sales due to the poor economy and the massive coal ash spill at the Kingston plant in Tennessee.